Mike Collins: “I do appreciate that because I am very concerned, after two straight weeks of Democrat bills, I am going to have a 100…”

“I do appreciate that because I am very concerned, after two straight weeks of Democrat bills, I am going to have a 100 percent voting record with the ACLU. That is something new as we go forward here; although I think they do good work, I just didn't know we were going to agree so soon on this. Mr. Chairman, I am going to describe the terrible policy behind the provisions of H.R. 1 in the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee. It is amazing, also, that we just did this without going through, because we didn't want to mark this up in areas because we didn't want to see what was in it; because here is what is going to happen: First, the bill creates a private cause of action for lawsuits related to the Help America Vote Act of 2002. That means the bill allows anyone to sue anybody if they don't like the way an election was conducted in a locality, State, or nationwide. Do you all remember the lawsuit Bush v. Gore? In 2000, Democratic Presidential candidate Al Gore didn't like the results of the vote in Florida. If he could get the Florida results overturned, he would have had enough to win the Presidency. So he sued to get the Florida results overturned by a court. The case went all the way up to the Supreme Court which finally stopped the recount after a month of legal wrangling that made America look like its elections were determined by lawyers, not voters. Well, guess what? We are bringing them back.…”